Dussehra, Saturday, Sept 30th, while many students were enjoying the festival week at their places, Moz-NIEC conducted the class, it commenced at 11 am, sharp, as the team came before the scheduled time and hence, were ready to teach the basics of JS.

I, frankly, thought that, conducting class on Dussehra wasn’t a good idea, as many students have already made plans with their family and would not prefer the class over their famliy. But to my surprise, around 55 students came, despite saying ‘no’ in the WhatsApp group.

Each team member told about their personal experience, working with JavaScript, and how it is useful in the modern day browser. Some students haven’t even studied C/C++, so we started with basics of every programming language, If, else. First, team wrote the code and showed it to the class, by using the projector, then, explained each and every word of the code, and, for some reason, someone is not able to understand the code, the team members, spread out in the class, go to their desks and, if the doubt is something important that the member, who was teaching, hadn’t emphasized a lot on. The doubt is then, cleared on the projector for everyone to see. This repo has been updated as promised.

Students, who were attending the class for the first time, were given links to read through, and each team member were assigned the new students to help them understand whatever was taught in the previous classes and were added in the group so that, they may discuss their doubts.

We gave them some tasks as homework. At the very end, We told them that Mozilla-NIEC is conducting a hackathon Moz-Hack on Oct 14 2017, and invites all developers and hackathon enthusiasts to participate in the hackathon. The next class is scheduled to be on next weekend. We intend to continue javascript in that session.

Sunday, Sept 24th, a day after our first term exams got over, we thought that the turnout of the students would be less, but, to our surprise, almost 50 students came.
We had set the projectors, laptops,extensions cords, etc quicker than the last time, and also before time as moz niec team came early.Moz-NIEC team taught different styling and, customising the look and feel of the website, and sending all the code into an external file i.e. CSS file. And gave a hint about the next class on JS.
Many new students came, so, the team members went to their desk and personally made them understand all that was being taught in the class. Presently, many students ask their doubts in the WhatsApp group, and from the team, whoever is free, solves their doubts. This repo has been updated as promised.

This is when the journey begins. It wasn’t the easiest of task to make announcements in every single class at the top of our voices, but it turned out unexpectedly overwhelming.

The response was just fantastic. More than 40 students showed up even before we did (we were punctual). And then adding up to near about 65 by the commencement of the class.

The plan was crystal clear, this was the first time coding experience for many of the first year students, and we wanted it to be as basic as we wanted it to be interesting.

We started off with who we are, how we are what we are and most importantly WHY we (and the students) are here. Being straightforward open source enthusiasts, it wasn’t as difficult for us ‘Mozillians’ to make our students fall in love with open source as it once might have seemed.

The response was not only overwhelming when it came to attendance but also equally amazing when it came to respone of the students towards what is being taught.

By the end of the 4 hour long workshop, where everyone seemed interested throughout, we as ‘teachers’ were delighted to conduct a successful workshop on HTML and more importantly why is it important to be a programmer, a creator.

The students, we feel, felt amazing. And we expect an even more audience the next time.

Some photos of the class 🙂 . You can find me. I am the guy with Hike T-shirt 😛